Originally by: Malcanis

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It was a genuine question. Whines identical to yours are posted every week or two. They're comprehensively answered.

Here's a little psychology experiment for you. Go find the nicest person you know and ask him a question. Make it a good one.

Then, after he answers you, ask him again.

And again, and again and again.

See how many times it takes for him to tell you to GTFO. I'll make a guess that he'll be pretty rude to you around the 5th iteration. If he makes it to 7, then he's a saint.

I'm not a saint and your OP was far behind the 7th time I've seen this whine.

What the hell, I'll try for canonisation.

CCP now start new players off with 800,000 SP, compared to the 20-80k that the veteran players started with. Call it a 760k SP advantage. 760k SP is almost exactly the number of SP required to train learnings to 4+4, at which point, assuming +4 implants which are reasonably cheap, you'll be learning at over 90% of the rate of a player with perfect learning skills, and at over 95% of the rate of a player with 5+4 learnings (the most common situation). Spend 50% of your training time for the first month training learning skills and then train cybernetics 4, and you'll be at 4+4 and able to fit +4 implants. By the end of that month, you'll have about the same number of non-learning skills as you would if you'd started off with finished (5+4) learnings and the same number of SP that I began with.

But if you want that last 5% then you'll have to put in the time to specialise in learning, just like you'll have to put in the time to specialise in T2 guns if you want that last 8% damage.

In short, you've been compensated in advance. You've taken the money and you've whining about having to the work, then you whined about having to do more work to be as good as the very best.

Then in your second you whined about being called a whiner.

You want sympathy from someone who started as a new player with 40k SP (and there were plenty of veterans with 10s of millions of SP flying back in late 2006, believe it), when basic learning skills had to be trained to level 5 before the advanced ones could be trained?

No.

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Originally by: Adonis 4174

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You killed him to annoy him. He self-destructed to annoy you. You're annoyed thus he wins.

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